Feb. 13 - Friday The 13th - I guess it's not a "holiday" and maybe I don't even want to notice the significance of this day anyway. If I was superstitious, or knew more superstitious people, this could be an interesting day, but alas. There's one again right away in March and another in November this year too...

Feb. 14 - Valentine's Day - I'm single. And it's not a day off anyway!

Feb. 15 - Flag Day (Canada) - I'm Canadian and I don't even know what this is.

Feb. 16 - President's Day (USA) - I'm Canadian so this means nothing. However, I should have the day off anyway, because of...

Feb. 16 - Family Day (some Canadian provinces) - THIS is the only "holiday", as in a day off, yet has no meaning behind it. >_< Spend time with the family? How is that different from any holiday that has a point to it? (I recall that the Premier in Alberta made it a provincial holiday in 1990, and two other provinces have adopted it since then.) How ironic that the only day off I get this month is a meaningless day off.

Sometime in late February - Reading Week - I'm not in any sort of post-secondary educational institution any more. This week off is either for studying for midterms, as the name implies, or totally not studying, in the sense that this was created as a sort of "Suicide Prevention Week". Not to underscore the point of it, but I don't plan on killing myself, so in that sense I'll be fulfilling the week, but I don't actually have the week off, not being in school and all.

Feb. 29 - Leap Day - Non-existent this year. And for years where it does exist, I really think it should be a day off. Spend the extra day catching up with the Earth's orbit by being at work? Sheesh.

(And if I wanted to extend my whining, sometimes Chinese New Year falls in February. This year it was on Jan. 26, and I didn't have a day off for that, either. Not much family left in the city to give me lucky red packets of money, so being Chinese was of no advantage. >_

February fails to deliver. If only I were a superstitious Roman Catholic Punxsutawnean astronomy student in love, living in Alberta while making use of my dual citizenship to celebrate both Canadian and American holidays.

We use the "paid time off" system where I work. I earn 10% of what I work in time off, that includes: holidays, vacations and sick leave. So holidays really don't matter too much to me in terms of getting off work.